Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
I think one reason I'm drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Try 1100 Words You Need to Know by Bromberg and Gordon. If you don’t want to know that many more words, try… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us. — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
Words become sentences, twisted, difficult/The story weaves itself, always noisiest at night/As herds of words won't stop. . — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Politics is different than movies. Politics are controlled by leaders. Leaders of every country have different interests. And they try to explain… — Hany Abu-Assad Copy Share Image
In 'Pictures from an Institution,' Randall Jarrell was able to transcend the academic novel by simply ignoring it, writing a comedy with… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
“If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I remember I was really into this British band, The Vapors, with that song "Turning Japanese." I thought that they were really… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
The book works better if I know everything I can about the ending. Not just what happens, but how it happens and… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Beauty can only be best described at its origin through a befuddling silence, the kind that leaves one almost on the verge… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
With the computer and programming languages, mathematics has newly-acquired tools, and its notation should be reviewed in the light of them. The… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
The language of any joint statement between two countries is mulled over many times before it becomes final. — Nirmala Sitharaman Copy Share Image
“Powerful words come with powerful intent. Where you have passion, strength, courage, and determination you can accomplish anything!” — K.L. Toth Copy Share Image
I like to do things in my own way and have my own personal language, but I can't control how it's received. — Rosalia Copy Share Image
Music is the universal language no matter the country we are born in or the color of our skin. Bring us all… — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
Few things are more painful than being a successful writer born in a small country with an impenetrable language. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own aristocratic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.” — José Saramago Copy Share Image
When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the… — Hans Hinrich Wendt Copy Share Image
It's really funny, because if you make up words, then people project their own meanings onto it, which I find interesting. — Aphex Twin Copy Share Image
She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat. — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Drizzt had always suspected it, but now it was confirmed, that "welcome" was his favortie word in the Common Tongue, and a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing more nervous than a million dollars - it moves very fast, and it doesn't speak any language. — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
“Tell me about your first breath of foreign air, about the history that filled your lungs. Tell me about the memories you… — Tyler Kent White Copy Share Image
Writing in another language gives me an additional freedom, an additional way of thinking. It's a challenge, but I like the challenge. — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
“Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology… we feel free because we lack the very language to… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by… — Horace Copy Share Image
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a… — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
I have no special desire to go crawl around in caves, but I really like the word [spelunking] and want to use… — Evan Mandery Copy Share Image
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The minute you watch your voice back with its proper animated character saying the words, that's when you learn exactly what you… — Alexander Armstrong Copy Share Image
The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image